Liu He stared at Lao Li coldly, and said to Wei Xiao on the side without looking back: "Take my sword!" ”

Wei Xiao handed the long sword to Liu He, and Liu He immediately unsheathed the long sword, and the sword body drew a cold light in the air, which made people feel frightened.

Although Lao Li knelt on his knees and was held down, he still refused to give up, and in the face of Liu He's long sword, he did not have the slightest intention of retreating, gritted his teeth and said viciously: "Despicable and shameless villain, you can kill me today, but justice is in the hearts of the people, one day, when the truth is revealed, it will be the day when you break your bones and scatter ashes!" ”

Liu He flicked his wrist, and the sword body drew an arc in the air again, but the tip of the sword was reversed, and the big locust tree behind him was instantly split from it.

The long sword was unsheathed, Liu He turned around and looked at the loyal old servant kneeling on the ground again, his eyes were no longer as cold as just now, but more of a helplessness.

Lao Li was dumbfounded, but his eyes were not on Liu He, but all focused on the big locust tree behind Liu He that was split in half.

Countless gold, silver, and jewels rolled out of the hollowed-out trees and scattered everywhere.

Liu He held the sword in one hand and the other behind his back, and said: "This is the reason why your master has never refused to see guests for so many years, and it is also the reason why he has been promoted several times, but he has never moved out of this house." Over the years, he had been taking bribes in private, and in order not to be discovered, his wife had brought them back to the mansion little by little, and then hid them in this dead old tree. ”

Lao Li did not argue, nor could he refute, because he knew that Mrs. did go to the temple to burn incense and worship the Buddha almost every day, and always carried a bamboo basket covered with a piece of dark blue linen, which was said to contain supplies for worshiping the Buddha, but now that I think about it, every time Mrs. comes back, although she can't see it, the things in the bamboo basket seem to be fuller.

"Twenty years ago, his wife suddenly fell ill and recuperated at home for a whole year, during which he did not go out or see anyone, and after a year, he began to go to the temple every day to burn incense and worship the Buddha, everything was exactly the same as before, the only difference was that the servant who had followed him for more than 20 years in the house suddenly returned to his hometown......

Liu He's face showed an undisguised look of contempt, "Farewell to the old man and return to his hometown? I've heard a lot of this word lately, but there's one thing I haven't been able to understand, a person who is not yet fifty years old and has no children and no relatives, and no relatives in his hometown, who is the old man who sues him, and which one of the people is the township? ”

As he spoke, Liu He pointed at the old locust tree with his sword and gave Wei Xiao a look, and Wei Xiao immediately commanded the armor soldier to dig up under the tree.

"I sent someone to check on the servant's hometown, but he never came back at all, and no one knew where he went, so I asked people to inquire around the Mongolian Mansion to see if I could find out the whereabouts of the servant back then, but I didn't want to check it, and there was an unexpected gain. In the year when Mrs. Meng first recovered from her serious illness, that is, the year when the servants of the Mongolian Mansion disappeared, a nearby Wen Po who delivered the baby also disappeared for no reason, and her whereabouts are still unknown. ”

Liu He walked up to Meng Xi and said with a smile: "So, there is nothing perfect in this world, right?" ”

Meng Xi closed her eyes, frowned, and was silent.

Liu He smiled and continued: "People think that he Meng Xi is a clean official, and he has no children and no daughters, so this incorruptibility is a sure thing. But our Meng Da Sinong deceived everyone, not only did he have a son, but he was also by his side, and the eminent monk that Mrs. Meng had to visit in the temple every day was their son. When I heard about this at the time, I also thought it was ridiculous, how could a young man in his teens become an enlightened monk? But after thinking about it carefully, I understood the mystery. The officials below donated a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry to the temple in the name of donating sesame oil money, and the God of Wealth, who can bring so many benefits, of course, has to be offered as a great bodhisattva, and Mrs. Meng brings back a part of the gold, silver and jewelry from the temple every day, returns to the mansion and hides it in the trunk of the big locust tree, and everything becomes unaware. ”

Although Lao Li was shocked after hearing this, he didn't lose his mind, because all this was reasonable, and there was no trace of fabrication and patchwork, not to mention that the old man who had always been recognized by him as a first-class official in the world was already like ashes, and he didn't seem to want to say a word of justification anymore.

"Got it!" With the exclamation of one of the armorers, everyone's attention was drawn to it.

In the two deep pits under the big locust tree, two white bones are impressive, which is shocking.

Of the two white bones, one was taller, and the deceased was obviously a man, while the other was much shorter in comparison, and it was supposed to be a woman.

The appearance of these two white bones has become the best proof of Liu He's words just now, the man's white bones are the servants of the Mongolian Mansion, and the other one is obviously the stable woman who disappeared out of thin air in the same year.

At this point, Liu He had nothing to say to Meng Xi, he glanced at Lao Li on the ground, but he didn't say anything, turned around and walked towards the door of the mansion.

Halfway through, he heard Meng Xi behind him say: "What you just said is right, almost the same, but there is one thing, I still don't understand, I have been cautious for so many years, what makes you suspicious of me?" ”

Liu He stopped, but did not turn around, stood in place, and after being silent for a long time, he sighed and said softly: "I have to admit that your plan can almost be said to be leaky, but you have been negligent a little, in the officialdom of greedy ink, it is impossible to sit in your position." ”

After that, Liu He strode away without looking back.

Behind him, the old man who had been in the officialdom for decades but finally lost his luck in the end smiled.

Maybe only Meng Xi can detect the deep meaning hidden behind Liu He's sigh, that helplessness, if he hadn't experienced the ups and downs of officialdom, he wouldn't have been able to spy on it.

The taste, only Liu He, who has just been reborn from a painful transformation into the bone marrow, can understand, in front of the grave, Liu He is finally willing to let go of the past paranoia, those hot-blooded and even naïve ideas will never become the code he believes in.

If you want to save people, you must first learn to kill, this is Liu He's epiphany before He Bushun's grave.

Walking out of the gate of the Mongolian Mansion, Liu He raised the long sword in his hand, his eyes were soft, and his smile was peaceful.

"It's not good, your life, I lived for you, from now on, let's kill those bitches together!"